Pfft, we based apps are the quickest way to make a core 2 duo insufficient to run a simple database app. Inefficiency is the new Vogue despite all the optimisations recent browsers have made to compensate for the basterdised scripting language they are trying to pass off as a develepment platform.
The RDS strikes again, the real problems started when people started to beleive all of the BS that came out of that guys mouth. They should have been hearing, buy this, buy that, buffer Apple profit rather than the BS he was broadcasting.
Yea, I'm going to be modded to hell and back for this but Windows and OSX are for people who don't want their OS to be a huge pile of text files jsut waiting for the opertunity to miss a line break of semicolen. cat order from chaos... etc.
Nice thought, you are quite right though. Either that or put a torrent site up there, thirty days and the lawyers would invade. Mars habitat... done. All it will take is a few MP3s and a movie or two.
Or you could grow a pair and cope, not everywhere is the US, you lot have not invaded everywhere yet, give it another 100 years of MPAA rule and you'll probably have your wish though.
More expencive due to a chunk of the decode hardware being pushed on to each and every moniter rather than being included for effectivly no cost on the silicon of the GPU. Yes there is no fee to use it but the hardware is more segmented and more complex, thats why a DP to VGA connector or DP to dual DVI costs so much in comparison to the basic pinout mapping of the older connections adapters iw DVI-A to VGA.
Reall crApple, I was using apps during calls in Windows Mobile long before the iPhone even existed. Have some prior art and choke on it. The macolites will undoubtedly defend their undisputed masters (whoever runs Apple) vision and in reply to them, Baaaa, baaaaa, bbbbbaaaaaa! which is a language they should understand. Remember lambs eventually get slaughtered.
Nothing of value was lost. Seriously Java was always an abortion from a security point of view then Oracle got a hold of it and two updates a week later its still a security nightmare. The best thing that could happen is it's end, Java is more like Flash than Flash is now from a security point of view.
Kill java and remove half the attack surface from your systems.
> Except nobody bar a few design students with incredible vision (but without the support of large companies) knew it at all. If it was obvious then early 1990s tablet PCs would have soon had the same design.
Oh you mean like the PADDs in STNG or the ones in all sorts of other SciFi since the 80s. They are the ones with the vision, the SciFi writers, producers and set designers. Apple just managed implementation.
Why upgrade, things break and con't be repaired and then new gear has no support for the old stuff you used to use. I dont thing the parent posters concern was for the standard primary school level image editing and audio work done by most constumers and the polished varient made by some pros. The real issue is when doing things that are not covered by the tools provided. If you need a new bit of code to process an image in a special way or process a more interesting type of data, multispectral images or the like.
This is where the problems arise, when your creativity is limited to what is handed to you by some updtream manufacturer who's sole aim is to push the most shiney gee-gaws to market. That is where progress slows or stops and the only people making progress are those who control the tools and the masses.
Your right, Silverlight is very simple to code for and comparitivly very efficient but as it did not spring to 110% marketshare in the expected twenty seconds Balmer is refocusing away from it on everything but Windows Phone.
I think a lot of the reason for this is that many of the web developers are either Apple followers or OSS fundementalists both of which have an irrational hatred of anything MS no matter how well it works.
Way to stand by your convictions there AC. Oracles JVM sucks and if the programers were using C++ properly it would run rings aroud java. The only reason java is faster in some of those situations is that it covers over rubbish programming by the developers by enforcing its training wheels.
Way to go, java is faster for people who are slower.
Way to waste at least 20% of the CPU power, lazy programmers. I'll take my CPUs to something that actually uses them efficiently like Folding@home which is optimised as opposed to interpreted or even compiled java bytecode being pushed like molasis through a straw.
Its not all like that, there are plenty of styles of NZ music avalible:
Pacifier/Shihad Elemeno P Autozamm Slim Goodnight Nurse Bulletproof Dragon Eight Fur Patrol Midnight Youth Etc. etc. etc. http://nzmusic.org.nz/artists/search/
Sounds good in theory but you get put on the very bottom priority level for bandwidth and if you go over moderate usage they traffic shape you into the ground. Its ok in some areas but get any decently congested exchange and it turns into dialup really fast.
You also have the fun of actually trying to deal with slingshot if something goes wrong which will have you waiting on hold for two hours at any time to get to their lowest level of helpdesk.
You also ge the pleasure of paying $10 a month for a single static IP as opposed to getting something like 8 free with many UK plans.
Totally agree, another New Zealander here, for a country that keeps BSing on and on about wanting to be a technological powerhouse the government does a damn good job trying to supress technology. They let companies like Telecom cap bandwidth to the point that it cripples net use and add so much additional tax on technology items that they can easily cost double what they cost in other countries.
They are so proud of their fibre to the home plan which will take decades to deliver outdated tech and they have helpfully given the contract back to Telecom. The same company that set NZ communications back 20 years in the first place. I'd like to know who got bribed for that one.
Seriously this country is a technological backwater as the government only cares about dairy farmers and Rugby. Anything else is seen as a threat by their microscopic minds.
Given HPs current actions they should be put in a padded cell with their laces and belt removed. It's current actions are retarded and their CEO should be thrown out of the corporate jet.
I'd think Microsoft would be all for this as they are going to great lengths to join up Xbox, Windows Phone 7 and probably Windows 8. A unified ecosystem would be much stronger and more influential. Sony would probably be good for bleading gamers to levels just below fatal though.
Perfect refference there:) "Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy If I had mod points I'd mod you up.
You're full of it on the IP6 front, the Windows implementation of IP6 is actually one of the better ones, much better than OSX or at least it was a while ago when tested. IP6 i also supported in XP and is a case of a couple of clicks or I beleive a single command line to enable it. Half the new tech that MS is pushing has heavy reliance on IP6 like DirectAccess and Vista/7 have it enabled by default. Apart from the exception of ISA/TMG MS actually seems to be pushing as hard as any vendor for IP6 including supporting it on products made so long ago that Apple has been through three architectures since.
Its probably just the media class that is being changed. Within the first sectors of SD cards and flash drives there is a section which defines what kind of removable storage device it is. You can change this with certain tools to make things like flash drives that usually show up as removable storage show up like fixed drives so that you can boot from them. This simple change in the first chunk of the memory makes the system treat it entirely differently, allowing multiple partitions etc. So if the device is re-labeled as a different class in this memory segment it is quite possible that it would behave like this. The hp bootable USB utility can make this kind of change to a drive and so would probably be able to recover one of these 'modified' cards to a format usable by other devices.
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Pfft, we based apps are the quickest way to make a core 2 duo insufficient to run a simple database app. Inefficiency is the new Vogue despite all the optimisations recent browsers have made to compensate for the basterdised scripting language they are trying to pass off as a develepment platform.
The RDS strikes again, the real problems started when people started to beleive all of the BS that came out of that guys mouth. They should have been hearing, buy this, buy that, buffer Apple profit rather than the BS he was broadcasting.
Yea, I'm going to be modded to hell and back for this but Windows and OSX are for people who don't want their OS to be a huge pile of text files jsut waiting for the opertunity to miss a line break of semicolen. cat order from chaos... etc.
Nice thought, you are quite right though. Either that or put a torrent site up there, thirty days and the lawyers would invade. Mars habitat... done. All it will take is a few MP3s and a movie or two.
Or you could grow a pair and cope, not everywhere is the US, you lot have not invaded everywhere yet, give it another 100 years of MPAA rule and you'll probably have your wish though.
More expencive due to a chunk of the decode hardware being pushed on to each and every moniter rather than being included for effectivly no cost on the silicon of the GPU. Yes there is no fee to use it but the hardware is more segmented and more complex, thats why a DP to VGA connector or DP to dual DVI costs so much in comparison to the basic pinout mapping of the older connections adapters iw DVI-A to VGA.
Reall crApple, I was using apps during calls in Windows Mobile long before the iPhone even existed. Have some prior art and choke on it. The macolites will undoubtedly defend their undisputed masters (whoever runs Apple) vision and in reply to them, Baaaa, baaaaa, bbbbbaaaaaa! which is a language they should understand. Remember lambs eventually get slaughtered.
Nothing of value was lost. Seriously Java was always an abortion from a security point of view then Oracle got a hold of it and two updates a week later its still a security nightmare. The best thing that could happen is it's end, Java is more like Flash than Flash is now from a security point of view.
Kill java and remove half the attack surface from your systems.
Portable HD is cheaper and faster, even for stacks of them. Small businesses may be using a bunch of these in place of tapes.
> Except nobody bar a few design students with incredible vision (but without the support of large companies) knew it at all. If it was obvious then early 1990s tablet PCs would have soon had the same design.
Oh you mean like the PADDs in STNG or the ones in all sorts of other SciFi since the 80s. They are the ones with the vision, the SciFi writers, producers and set designers. Apple just managed implementation.
Why upgrade, things break and con't be repaired and then new gear has no support for the old stuff you used to use. I dont thing the parent posters concern was for the standard primary school level image editing and audio work done by most constumers and the polished varient made by some pros. The real issue is when doing things that are not covered by the tools provided. If you need a new bit of code to process an image in a special way or process a more interesting type of data, multispectral images or the like.
This is where the problems arise, when your creativity is limited to what is handed to you by some updtream manufacturer who's sole aim is to push the most shiney gee-gaws to market. That is where progress slows or stops and the only people making progress are those who control the tools and the masses.
I share the same concerns.
Your right, Silverlight is very simple to code for and comparitivly very efficient but as it did not spring to 110% marketshare in the expected twenty seconds Balmer is refocusing away from it on everything but Windows Phone.
I think a lot of the reason for this is that many of the web developers are either Apple followers or OSS fundementalists both of which have an irrational hatred of anything MS no matter how well it works.
Way to stand by your convictions there AC. Oracles JVM sucks and if the programers were using C++ properly it would run rings aroud java. The only reason java is faster in some of those situations is that it covers over rubbish programming by the developers by enforcing its training wheels.
Way to go, java is faster for people who are slower.
Way to waste at least 20% of the CPU power, lazy programmers. I'll take my CPUs to something that actually uses them efficiently like Folding@home which is optimised as opposed to interpreted or even compiled java bytecode being pushed like molasis through a straw.
Its not all like that, there are plenty of styles of NZ music avalible:
Pacifier/Shihad
Elemeno P
Autozamm
Slim
Goodnight Nurse
Bulletproof
Dragon
Eight
Fur Patrol
Midnight Youth
Etc. etc. etc.
http://nzmusic.org.nz/artists/search/
Sounds good in theory but you get put on the very bottom priority level for bandwidth and if you go over moderate usage they traffic shape you into the ground. Its ok in some areas but get any decently congested exchange and it turns into dialup really fast.
You also have the fun of actually trying to deal with slingshot if something goes wrong which will have you waiting on hold for two hours at any time to get to their lowest level of helpdesk.
You also ge the pleasure of paying $10 a month for a single static IP as opposed to getting something like 8 free with many UK plans.
Totally agree, another New Zealander here, for a country that keeps BSing on and on about wanting to be a technological powerhouse the government does a damn good job trying to supress technology. They let companies like Telecom cap bandwidth to the point that it cripples net use and add so much additional tax on technology items that they can easily cost double what they cost in other countries.
They are so proud of their fibre to the home plan which will take decades to deliver outdated tech and they have helpfully given the contract back to Telecom. The same company that set NZ communications back 20 years in the first place. I'd like to know who got bribed for that one.
Seriously this country is a technological backwater as the government only cares about dairy farmers and Rugby. Anything else is seen as a threat by their microscopic minds.
Given HPs current actions they should be put in a padded cell with their laces and belt removed. It's current actions are retarded and their CEO should be thrown out of the corporate jet.
Apple did not kill floppies, the USB memorey stick did.
I'd think Microsoft would be all for this as they are going to great lengths to join up Xbox, Windows Phone 7 and probably Windows 8. A unified ecosystem would be much stronger and more influential. Sony would probably be good for bleading gamers to levels just below fatal though.
Perfect refference there :)
"Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
If I had mod points I'd mod you up.
Where's the ban for Apple, they usually polute the airwaves far more than either of those meantioned
You're full of it on the IP6 front, the Windows implementation of IP6 is actually one of the better ones, much better than OSX or at least it was a while ago when tested. IP6 i also supported in XP and is a case of a couple of clicks or I beleive a single command line to enable it. Half the new tech that MS is pushing has heavy reliance on IP6 like DirectAccess and Vista/7 have it enabled by default. Apart from the exception of ISA/TMG MS actually seems to be pushing as hard as any vendor for IP6 including supporting it on products made so long ago that Apple has been through three architectures since.
Its probably just the media class that is being changed. Within the first sectors of SD cards and flash drives there is a section which defines what kind of removable storage device it is. You can change this with certain tools to make things like flash drives that usually show up as removable storage show up like fixed drives so that you can boot from them. This simple change in the first chunk of the memory makes the system treat it entirely differently, allowing multiple partitions etc. So if the device is re-labeled as a different class in this memory segment it is quite possible that it would behave like this. The hp bootable USB utility can make this kind of change to a drive and so would probably be able to recover one of these 'modified' cards to a format usable by other devices.